Archive for October, 2011
Elyria rallies from 17 points down to beat Stow
STOW — Elyria High buried itself in a deep hole early Friday night in the mud and slop at Stow. Miraculously, the Pioneers had enough heart and guts to dig themselves out and find a way to win 31-26 and keep their fleeting playoff and Northeast Ohio River Division title hopes alive. “We dug ourselves [...]
Firelands wins wild one against Buckeye, stays undefeated
YORK TWP. — It was expected to be a tuneup for a pivotal Week 9 battle. It wound up being a high school football game for the ages. Firelands stayed undefeated with a thrilling 40-36 Patriot Athletic Conference Stars Division victory over Buckeye on Friday, but it took scoring two touchdowns in a 29-second span [...]
College football: Oberlin’s Thornton looking for Illinois win over OSU
Illinois left guard Hugh Thornton has a message for all the Big Ten teams and players anxiously waiting to get their shot at the seemingly wounded Ohio State Buckeyes. Get in line. Thornton had yet to crack the lineup during his freshman season and did not even make the trip to Columbus to witness the [...]
Browns: Shurmur wants improved RAC from receivers
BEREA — Coach Pat Shurmur wants to bring RAC back to the Browns. There’s no need to panic. He doesn’t mean former coach Romeo Crennel, whose initials and nickname are RAC, and who went 24-40 from 2005-08. Shurmur’s West Coast offense relies on run after catch (RAC) and he’s looking for improvement coming out of [...]
Ohio State: Buckeye men banking on big things in basketball
COLUMBUS — In an otherwise dreary 11 months at Ohio State filled with NCAA problems, a bit of salvation could be just around the corner. The men’s basketball team of coach Thad Matta is coming off a sterling 34-3 record and has three stars back. The Buckeyes held their media day on Thursday and — [...]
Cardinals 7, Brewers 1: Cards win Game 5 of NLCS
ST. LOUIS — The bumbling Brewers made four errors that led to three unearned runs, and the St. Louis Cardinals survived a short start by Jaime Garcia to beat Milwaukee 7-1 Friday night and take a 3-2 lead in the NL Championship Series. Yadier Molina and Matt Holliday had three hits each for St. Louis, [...]
ALCS: Cruz has Rangers a win away
ARLINGTON, Texas — Nelson Cruz is again swinging his big boomstick in October for the Texas Rangers, who are one win from their second consecutive trip to the World Series. Only 31⁄2 years ago, Cruz was waived at the end of spring training but went unclaimed and was sent to the minors. It’s been quite [...]
High school soccer notes: EC boys living up to expectations
Coming off a Division II district title in 2010, expectations were high for the Elyria Catholic boys heading into this season. Although the Panthers moved back to Division III prior to the season, they remain on track for another trip to regionals. They’re the top seed in their district and enter tonight’s game at Columbia [...]
‘Bath salts’ and pseudo pot illegal as of Monday
ELYRIA — Police and prosecutors are preparing to enforce a law that goes into effect Monday banning synthetic versions of marijuana, as well as chemicals in products marketed as bath salts that some say have effects similar to PCP or LSD. Ohio House Bill 64, signed into law by Gov. John Kasich in July, was [...]
‘Condemned’ home catches fire in Sheffield Lake
SHEFFIELD LAKE — A vacant home was damaged by fire at 512 Treadway Blvd. in Sheffield Lake a little before 10 a.m. Friday. Fire Chief Tim Card said the fire may have started in a first-floor utility room, but the cause remained under investigation. The home had been condemned as unsafe to live in Sept. [...]
No early release for man who denied injured wife treatment
ELYRIA — A judge Friday denied early release for a Columbia Township man who served about half of a four-year prison sentence for failing to get medical attention for his wife who died from injuries she suffered after jumping from a moving sport-utility vehicle. John Biszantz had sought early release, which was denied in a [...]
Brown invites Agricultural Department rep to view Erie algal bloom
U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown has invited the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s chief conservation expert to Ohio to witness the blue-green algae bloom in the western basin of Lake Erie that has spread to Lorain. Brown, D-Avon, sent a letter Thursday inviting Dave White, chief of the Natural Resource Conservation Service at the U.S. Department of [...]
BLOTTER: Oct. 15, 2011
Elyria police Thursday, Oct. 13 9:48 a.m. — 2400 Andrew Gray, 27, 100 block High St., charged with domestic violence for alleged fight with girlfriend. 12:05 p.m. — Sears, Midway Mall, Bruce Harmon, 54, Lorain, charged with theft of coat and criminal trespass. 4:10 p.m. — 1500 block Park Ave., driver’s side window smashed. 4:49 [...]
National FOP leaders visit Ohio amid union law fight
COLUMBUS — Leaders of the nation’s largest law enforcement union are visiting Ohio amid the ballot fight over the state’s collective bargaining overhaul, rallying members who hope to overturn the law that limits bargaining for more than 350,000 public workers. The national president and secretary of the politically influential Fraternal Order of Police are slated [...]
Fire damages vacant Sheffield Lake home
SHEFFIELD LAKE — A vacant home was damaged by fire at 512 Treadway Blvd. in Sheffield Lake today a little before 10 a.m. Fire Chief Tim Card said the fire may have started in a first-floor utility room, but the cause was still under investigation. The owner of the home, who was at the scene, [...]
High school football Week 8: Midview rolling behind new QB and big gesture from last year’s
Few people outside the Midview football program know that senior wide receiver Ryan Mains’ selfless sacrifice last season is one of the big reasons the Middies are currently riding a six-game winning streak. It’s no secret that sophomore quarterback Cody Callaway has put up huge numbers the past three weeks and has been the driving [...]
(Updated) Browns center Alex Mack returns to practice, cornerback Joe Haden doesn’t
BEREA – Browns center Alex Mack returned to the practice field today and said it will be a gametime decision whether he plays Sunday in Oakland. Mack had an appendectomy Oct. 3 after playing the previous day despite feeling ill with what turned out to be appendicitis. Cornerback Joe Haden hasn’t practiced since spraining his [...]
Volleyball: Lorain avenges loss to Euclid, wraps up a share of LEL title
LORAIN — There’s nothing sweeter than gaining revenge and a championship all in one swoop — or better yet — all in one sweep. That’s exactly what Lorain accomplished Thursday on Senior Night in knocking off Euclid to sew up a share of the Lake Erie League title with Maple Heights. The Titans, who had [...]
Browns: Outside Linebacker Chris Gocong’s play getting notice
BEREA — Without prompting, Raiders coach Hue Jackson mentioned Browns outside linebacker Chris Gocong on a conference call this week. He didn’t just bring up Gocong, he placed him on a pedestal. “The kid Gocong is playing as well as anybody at Will (weakside) linebacker,” Jackson said. “He’s an unbelievable dogger (blitzer), he makes explosive [...]
District golf: Avon Lake resident Beau Titsworth shoots 67, grabs first
HINCKLEY TWP. — Beau didn’t know he had to go low, and St. Ignatius was thankful he did just that. Avon Lake resident and first-team All-Ohioan Beau Titsworth shot a 5-under-par 67 Thursday to win medalist honors at the Pine Hills Division I District, helping the Wildcats qualify for next week’s state tournament at Ohio [...]
District golf: Avon Lake’s Brendan Aussem survives playoff
The clock was ticking on Brendan Aussem’s season. Literally. The Avon Lake junior had just hooked his drive into the heather and almost out of bounds on the first playoff hole at Thursday’s Division I district golf tournament at Red Hawk Run Golf Course in Findlay. If that wasn’t bad enough, now he couldn’t find [...]
District tennis: Witt qualifies to state; Mostardi needs a win
OBERLIN — The two remaining area tennis players had a strong showing at the Division I district tournament Thursday. Grafton resident Emily Witt, a Magnificat sophomore in her first year playing varsity, punched her ticket to Columbus with two victories — a 6-1, 6-0 win over Lake’s Katherine McCauley and a 6-2, 7-5 win over [...]
Case Western to receive donations of $50M and $20M
CLEVELAND — Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland says it has received a pledge for a $50 million gift, the largest in the school’s 185-year history. The commitment has come from the Weatherhead Foundation of longtime university booster Albert J. Weatherhead III, who died last month. The Plain Dealer reports the university also has gotten [...]
Central Ohio school district may go to four-day school weeks
LONDON, Ohio — A central Ohio school district is proposing a four-day school week as a remedy for its budget problems, an idea that would need a change in state law. Schools Superintendent Steve Allen in London tells The Columbus Dispatch that shortening the week would save the district at least $245,000 a year on [...]
EMH nurse gets probation for drug thefts
ELYRIA — A former nurse at EMH Medical Center in Elyria was sentenced last week to three years of probation for abusing painkillers left over from injections she had given to patients she was treating. Angela Garcia, 39, pleaded guilty to four counts each of theft and illegal processing of drug documents earlier this year. [...]